Warwickshire v Buckinghamshire
Sunday August 10th 2008
Gaz
Calcott Pool Guru...
The Geordies for a top four
spot this season... Why-Aye man!!!!!
Hysteria and celebrations in
the Ladies team! What’s up, did they win – no, they had 12 players!
And so we entered the
final section trailing 19-14, but sadly they lost out 7-4 to give Bucks
an overall win of 26-18.
Captain Katie had rallied
round the troops and put a full team out against the Bucks Bunnies – that’s
one team that you really want to catch Myxomatosis!!!!
Not the best of beginnings as
the seemingly “On form” Bunnies went 9-2 in front in the 1st
section, but then Warwickshire ladies won the 2nd section 6-5 and
then really upset the apple cart by winning the 3rd section 6-5!
Once again Ali Wilkins led
the way with a brilliant and hard fought 4 out of 4, but Bucks decided to
award the player of trophy to Julie Brittain (pictured with Gaz) for her 3
out of 4 achievement.
Team:
Wendy Forde, Katie Bonham, Tor Andrews, Sally Brazener, Kat Jarvis, Tracy
Layfield, Ali Wilkins, Skye Smith, Julie Brittain, Hazel Payne, Charlie
Scarff and Lorna Kernaghan
A couple
of players missing for the B team provided openings for Steve Valentine and
Dave Hegarty to get their first start in a county match as the team
attempted to build on their 2 out of 2 winning start to the 2008 campaign.
A couple
of players missing for the B team provided openings for Steve Valentine and
Dave Hegarty to get their first start in a county match as the team
attempted to build on their 2 out of 2 winning start to the 2008 campaign.
An edgy start to the
match saw Bucks B take the first section 6-5, but the Warks lads rallied
around to take 8 straight frames and win the 2nd section 8-3,
putting them 13-9 in front at the halfway mark.
The Warwickshire B team were
hoping for a good result in order to maintain their position at the top of
the table, but Bucks B weren’t about to give the game away that easy.
Russ Blinco made it 20, Ponty
and Valley made it 22 to ensure the draw and Dave Lea cleared up in emphatic
style to secure the win …… which was just as well as Warwickshire LOST the
last 6 frames! Final score was 23-21 to Warwickshire B.
Bucks won 3 frames to make it
13-12 and Warks replied with 4 in a row to regain their advantage and they
won the section 6-5 which meant they went into the final section 19-14 up,
needing 4 more frames for victory.
Superb performances from Dave
Lea and Steve Valentine who both notched up 4 win from 4 frames, but the
Bucks captain decided that the man of the match trophy should go the
“Valley” pictured above.
Elsewhere, Roy Pontefract,
Azza Easson and Martin Groves contributed with 3 out of 4’s.
Team:
Russ Blinco, Neil Pincham, Howard Bailie, Roy
Pontefract, Steve Valentine, Dave Lea, Russ Harding, Martin Groves, Mark
Winham, Aaron Easson, Dave Collins, Chris Lowe, Dave Easson and Gaz Calcott.
Paul Willis led the attack
for Warks and the Lads won the 1st section 6-5, however, Bucks
were starting to find their form and they won the 2nd section 6-5
to make it 11-11 at the halfway stage.
The holiday season took it’s
toll on the squad, but never the less, the Warks Mens A team put in a great
performance against Bucks Mens A.
Warwickshire stepped up a
gear to take the 3rd section 7-4 to give them an 18-15 lead going
into the final section.
Bucks pulled it back to
18-17, but then Warks took 5 frames in succession to secure victory with Ben
Deeley getting the match winner for Warwickshire A. Final score 26-18.
A brilliant 4 out of 4 saw
Roger Hunt (pictured) take the Man of the match trophy whilst there were 3
out of 4 performances from Paul Willis, Rich Mills, Andy West and Craig
Sturmey. A special mention for Young James Willis who pulled out a 7 ball
clearance to really piss off one of the Buck’s Mens team players who was
last seen sulking at the bar muttering something about “Shouldn’t he be
doing his paper round instead of playing pool”
Team:
Paul Willis, Karl Knight, Sam Mills, James
Willis, Rich Mills, Andy West, Ben Deeley, Dave Hegarty, Craig Sturmey, Baz
Hinde and Roger Hunt
